Overcoming India's skills challenge: Transforming India into a high performance nation
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Governments
Governments hold a wealth of knowledge on skills development, and are increasingly realizing the value of learning from each others’ experiences. Their policy documents, programme evaluations, and research findings contain their experience and ideas on how to better link skills to employment
Other sources
Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Training quality and relevance
Youth employability
Globally, nearly 68 million young women and men are looking for and available for work, and an estimated 123 million young people are working but living in poverty. The number who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) stands at 267 million, a majority of whom are young women. Significantly, young people are three times as likely as adults (25 years and older) to be unemployed.
Skills development is a primary means of enabling young people to make a smooth transition to work. A comprehensive approach is required to integrate young women and men in the labour market, including relevant and quality skills training, labour market information, career guidance and employment services, recognition of prior learning, incorporating entrepreneurship with training and effective skills forecasting. Improved basic education and core work skills are particularly important to enable youth to engage in lifelong learning as well as transition to the labour market.
Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
Together, with the NSDC, Accenture conducted a survey with the aim of understanding the impact of its training investments on trainees and the industrial sector over a three-year time span. Survey results clearly indicate that the injection of private capital into India’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system is helping overcome traditional challenges of poor and inadequate infrastructure. The private initiatives have also recorded high placement rates for its trainees, with 50 percent of the trainees who complete training receiving job offers within three months of their training. However some significant challenges exist. The ‘expectations-delivery’ mismatch is leading to high numbers of drop outs— trainees quitting jobs within a month of joining, or those not willing to accept offers made to them due to a series of mismatches between trainee expectations and what programs are actually delivering. This paper presents a comprehensive action plan that could help overcome the expectations-delivery mismatch and improve the attractiveness of VET.
Employability
Private sector
Public private partnerships
Vocational training
Youth
Asia and the Pacific
